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Writing Under National Socialism C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/8836237/WORKINGFOLDER/WEBR/9781107062009C06.3D 111 [111–129] 27.10.2016 7:27PM 6 REINHARD ZACHAU Writing under National Socialism After the National Socialists consolidated their power on a broad political level, they quickly established their rule in Germany’s cultural politics by staging one of their first cultural events in Berlin. The notorious burning of books ‘against the un-German spirit’ (‘wider den undeutschen Geist’), was coordinated by the Nazi student organization and enacted at many univer- sities across Germany. University libraries had been asked to comb through their shelves for ‘anti-German’ and Jewish books, which were put in huge piles, before torches carried in the nocturnal parade were used to burn them. The Berlin ceremony took place on 10 May 1933 in the arena of Berlin’s Opernplatz or Opera Square, close to the buildings of the Humboldt University. Joseph Goebbels accepted the student organization’s invitation to give a public address, which established his reputation as Germany’s premier Nazi censor and propagandist. The Nazis embodied the cultural political antithesis of the Weimar Republic. While many authors had felt inspired by Weimar’s artistic energy, the Nazis swiftly censored their creativity in 1933 and replaced individual experimentation with formulaic art. Much as many Weimar writers realized the Nazi horror instantly, others were slower to comprehend its magnitude. One of those was Victor Klemperer, who asked in 1933, ‘Where was I and how did it happen that nobody paid attention to this sudden rise of the 1 Nazis?’ While the first authors who left Germany were Hitler’s more express political opponents, most others dug in and believed that the Nazi govern- ment would be just another episode in the attempt to set up a stable govern- ment. Germans as a whole did not realize that the regime had a monstrous master plan, one that used the weak economy and the Reichstag fire as pretences to push through arrest warrants against left-leaning intellectuals, journalists and writers. The Nazis hated urban life, especially in the form it took in Berlin, and shifted their literary interests to historical topics and to mythical concepts of nature, commonly known by the slogan, ‘Blut und Boden’ (blood and soil). 111 C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/8836237/WORKINGFOLDER/WEBR/9781107062009C06.3D 112 [111–129] 27.10.2016 7:27PM reinhard zachau Goebbels reviled contemporary urban literature as ‘Asphaltliteratur’ and 2 described Berlin as ‘the reddest city in Europe besides Moscow’. And Hitler is said to have ‘despised Berlin’s greed and frivolity ...he stood baffled and alienated by the phenomenon of the big city, lost in so much 3 noise, turbulence, and miscegenation’. But the Nazis soon realized that a complete break with Weimar literature was not in their interest, as a discussion about city life in Alfred Rosenberg’s periodical Bücherkunde in 1941 showed. Here, the critic Hans Franke maintained that modern life could indeed only be found in cities, demanding in true Nazi spirit an organic, völkisch perspective to capture modern life, not a multifaceted view as Weimar authors had given. The wartime debate reveals the increas- ing tension between Rosenberg’s ideology, with its ‘blood and soil’ watch- word, and that of Goebbels, who wanted National Socialist writers to have the ‘courage to engage with the present’ and occupy the domain of urban 4 literature. And this was conducted against the background of Hitler’s desire to destroy Berlin as it stood and transform it into Germania, a heroically super-scaled metropolis. In stark contrast to Weimar Berlin’s aggregated, informal districts, or Kieze, Hitler planned to recreate a classical city that would erase one thousand years of history in favour of a concept borrowed from the Roman Empire. It is an irony of history that, while Hitler’s plans for Germania never materialized, the firebombing of Berlin almost achieved the city’s extinction by other means. Party Lines The first example of a Nazi propaganda novel is Karl Aloys Schenzinger’s Hitlerjunge Quex (Hitler Youth Quex (1932)), which subsequently also became a popular feature film. The book is based on the life of Herbert Norkus, who died in Moabit’s Beussel Kiez while being confronted by members of the Communist youth organization. Schenzinger fictionalized the case of Norkus to show how Heini Völker (the surname translates as ‘Peoples’), the son of an unemployed Communist, does not join the youth organization of his father’s party (the ‘Commune’), but instead the Hitler Youth. Heini befriends a Nazi teenager who invites him to his upscale Hansa Quarter home, where he explains how German society has become crippled by its class system. Heini then warns the Nazis of a Communist plan to bomb their assembly hall, and when his mother finds out, she is so afraid of the Communists that she turns on the gas to kill herself and the boy. After awakening in a hospital, Heini finds himself surrounded by Hitler Youths who present him with a uniform. The energetic Heini then works all night to print Nazi leaflets and distributes them in the Beussel Kiez. After Heini 112 C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/8836237/WORKINGFOLDER/WEBR/9781107062009C06.3D 113 [111–129] 27.10.2016 7:27PM Writing under National Socialism falls in love with a member of the Nazi BDM organization (the Bund deutscher Mädchen, or Association of German Girls), they practise kissing at a play rehearsal. When the thrilled boy is attacked by Communists on his way home, he never recovers from the injuries and dies a week later. His last words are those of the Horst Wessel song, which would become the unofficial Nazi anthem, and the novel concludes with the scene of 75,000 boys singing the same song the martyr sang on his deathbed, as they parade before Hitler. The prototype for Schenzinger’s story is evidently Erich Kästner’s Emil und die Detektive (Emil and the Detectives (1929)), with the idea of solidarity among the boys an important factor in negotiating Berlin’s various classes and neighbourhoods. Like Kästner’s world, Schenzinger’s is divided into Manichean categories of good and evil. But where Kästner shows adults as corrupt, Schenzinger singles out the Communists for their dubious morals: the girls are lax, while the boys engage in theft and violence. After an excursion, the book takes on a different tone, as the Berlin teenagers are happy to get away from the city and its decadent atmosphere. While the Communists simply use nature for drinking and vulgar games, for Schenzinger, the Nazis are shown to need nature for their military games, as Nazi ideology romanticized a return to the natural state for political renewal. Hitlerjunge Quex can be compared to Jan Petersen’s Unsere Straße (Our Street (1936)), the Communist version of a Berlin Kiez battle. Unsere Straße, one of the most influential Communist novels written in Berlin during the Nazi period, was smuggled out of Germany to enable its publication. Petersen was the Berlin leader of the Association of Proletarian- Revolutionary Authors (Bund Proletarisch-Revolutionärer Schriftsteller), founded in 1928. The BPRS counted among its members many of Germany’s prominent left-wing writers, such as Bruno Apitz, author of the Holocaust novel Nackt unter Wölfen (Naked amongst Wolves (1955)), Johannes R. Becher (who later became the GDR’s Culture Secretary), the journalist and writer Egon Erwin Kisch, the theatre director Erwin Piscator, the writer Anna Seghers, and Friedrich Wolf, whose Professor Mamlock (1933) is among the best-known plays written in exile. Petersen was able to keep the BPRS active as an underground organization until 1935, when it was betrayed to the Gestapo. In Unsere Straße he tells the story of his own Berlin Kiez and how his comrades tried to survive Nazi aggression by enga- ging in acts of active and passive resistance. The book portrays the Wallstraße, a proletarian street where the workers and servants of the middle-class Charlottenburg district lived. To disguise the identities of his comrades, Petersen fictionalized his diary entries and followed the pattern of the ‘barricade novels’ of the early 1930s which were popularized by Klaus 113 C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/8836237/WORKINGFOLDER/WEBR/9781107062009C06.3D 114 [111–129] 27.10.2016 7:27PM reinhard zachau Neukrantz’s Barrikaden am Wedding (Barricades at Wedding (1931)), a Marxist novel of street conflicts in the working-class Wedding district. Whereas Weimar’s flâneur culture had been decidedly bourgeois and often apolitical, the BPRS-rooted novel of the streets became the proto- type for illegal writing during Berlin’s Nazi occupation. Unsere Straße is a self-reflective narrative, cast between reportage and novel, with the author’s creative hand visible in the narrative arc he creates out of the diary-style accounts. The text has the character of a political thriller, with its suspenseful scenes centring on the struggle between the Communists and the Nazis for control of the eponymous street. The story begins with a shooting on 30 January 1933, when a troop of armed SA-men march through the Wallstraße to claim the Communist territory as theirs and accidentally shoot one of their own number and an accompanying Berlin policeman. It ends with the trial of local Communists, when the twenty- eight accused are all sentenced to prison, while no Nazi is indicted. The Nazi terror on the streets of Berlin and in the early days of the concentration camps is described in full detail, including the torture and murder of the writer Erich Mühsam at the Brandenburg concentration camp. After an appearance at the First International Writers’ Congress for the Defence of Culture in Paris in June 1935, Jan Petersen was hunted by the Nazis, but was able to avoid capture and to emigrate first to Switzerland and then to England.
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